Join us as alum David K. Thomson (Ph.D. '16) discusses his research and new book, Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (University of North Carolina Press, April, 2022).

Congratulations to Dr. Jennifer Palmer, who was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her project: "Race, Gender, and Property Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century French Atlantic World."

In celebration of Black History Month, we are presenting a number of special events. These events are free and open to the public.

Advance registration is required for some of the events.

Please see the history department upcoming event calendar for more details and registration information, at https://history.uga.edu/events/all.

Join us via Zoom for this special presentation. Professor John W. I. Lee of UC Santa Barbara will discuss his new book, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert (Oxford University Press 2022), with a particular focus on Gilbert’s community, educational, and scholarly connections in Georgia.

Join us for a talk with Dr. Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art of the Georgia Museum of Art.

Featuring Hattie Whitehead, Co-Chair of the Linnentown Project, with guest Bobby Crook.

Article excerpt from Franklin.uga.edu by Alan Flurry

Please join Dr. Ethan Blue as he presents his new book The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal (University of California Press, 2021).  

The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal is a history of the United States' systematic expulsion of "undesirable" immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who traveled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains.

Congratulations to Dr. Cassia Roth, whose book A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2020), has been named a 2021 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), American Library Association (ALA).

Cassia Roth, Assistant Professor of History & Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia, recently won the Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize in Latin American History from the Southern Historical Association for her book, A Miscarriage of Justice: Women’s Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil (Stanford UP, 2020).